Make your mark, DANIEL SMITH Watercolour Stick!

DANIEL SMITH Watercolour Sticks are an expressive addition to every artist's palette – adding more creative possibilities!

Carmine (PR 176) Carmin

Carmine is a blue-shade benzimidazolone pigment that is redder and darker, has more staining than Alizarin Crimson, and is vastly superior in terms of its properties permanence.

These watercolour sticks offer the same vivid colour intensity as Daniel Smith Extra-Fine Watercolours, combined with the convenience and portability of half pans in a practical stick format. Every stick is filled with pure pigment, which activates easily with water, creating vibrant, rich, and creamy colours upon wetting. They can also be used dry for building texture, making them an ideal medium for sketching and exploring colour values and bold expressions. These extra-fine watercolour sticks are a valuable addition to any artist's palette.

• Lightfastness: Very Good
• Transparency: Semi-Transparent
• Staining: High Staining
• Granulation: Non Granulating
• Pigment: PR 176 (Benzimidzalone Carmine HF3C) | Series: 2

DANIEL SMITH Watercolour Sticks are a “Pan in Your Hand”!

These innovative 3-inch watercolour sticks are DANIEL SMITH Watercolour paints shaped into a convenient stick form, allowing you to draw and paint with your watercolours.

The DANIEL SMITH Watercolour Sticks are an exciting new way to use watercolour!

The Watercolour Sticks are made with the same superior pigment as the DANIEL SMITH Watercolour paints. The DANIEL SMITH Watercolour Sticks have no fillers or waxes – they are DANIEL SMITH Watercolour paint made with pure pigment and gum Arabic, so the paint releases easily with a wet brush. The Watercolour Sticks are a "pan in your hand"; they are DANIEL SMITH Watercolour paint shaped into stick form, baked, wrapped in a label and ready to draw and paint!

The DANIEL SMITH Watercolour Sticks are some of the most popular colours DANIEL SMITH makes!

1 DANIEL SMITH Watercolour Stick = 3 Full Pans!

Unique drawing tool, DANIEL SMITH Watercolour Stick

Unique Drawing Tool – Watercolour Sticks are an expressive and fun tool for drawing directly with watercolours. It is comfortable to hold, and the tip can be sharpened for a more precise drawing tip. When sharpening, be sure to save the shavings; those are pure DANIEL SMITH watercolours! You can add water to the shavings and turn them into liquid paint in a small dish or container.

With DANIEL SMITH Watercolour Sticks, you can:

• Draw directly onto dry or wet paper for different line characteristics.
• Soften your lines with a wet brush.
• Blend colours with your wet brush both on the paper and Stick.
• Draw onto paper, then, with a wet brush, take up Watercolour Stick pigment and paint from that like you would with paint in a pan.
• Add water to create light washes using your brush.
• Using the Watercolour Sticks for rich, saturated colours, you can build up layers.
• Draw over painted areas with the Watercolour Sticks, adding detail or line work.
• Create texture by applying the watercolour sticks in different ways, whether wet or dry.